The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

The Age of Enlightenment brought us crucial inventions and discoveries in many areas including the circulation of blood, optics, scientific classification, calculus, the microscope, gravity and ...

Philip Dray’s new book, “Stealing God’s Thunder,” is an elegantly written reminder that the United States was born of the Age of Enlightenment, a product of men who lived in the heady ...

The age of Enlightenment provided the backdrop for eighteenth century European theories about human difference. Exploration of Africa, Asia and the Americas brought Europeans in contact with ...

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...

White Freedom charts how the heralded Age of Enlightenment that inspired the United States—an age dedicated to the ideals of liberty, progress, scientific inquiry, constitutional government ...